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7mm Weatherby: Why so little attention?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2460311" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Just tossing this out there to generate discussion and probably ruffle feathers but the more I see about this old cartridge the more I can't understand why it's so far removed from the commercial success of 7mm-"anything else"magnums. It's what the 7mm rem could have been but wasn't. It nips right on the heels of the STW, Nosler, and RUM cartridges out of ordinary hunting rifle barrel lengths with waaaay less powder. Whatever about the curvy shoulder voodoo, I don't know that there's anything to that, but it hasn't been crippled by an arbitrarily low SAAMI pressure and hooray for freebore. (Also the .270 weatherby comes to mind for the same virtues…). </p><p></p><p>So what are your thoughts? It wouldn't be hard to fire form brass, and we love tinkering with things enough that the weatherby case design and expensive factory ammo can't possibly be all there is to why this round isn't more popular…can it?</p><p></p><p>If I ever get a 7mm of any kind this will probably be the one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2460311, member: 109862"] Just tossing this out there to generate discussion and probably ruffle feathers but the more I see about this old cartridge the more I can’t understand why it’s so far removed from the commercial success of 7mm-“anything else”magnums. It’s what the 7mm rem could have been but wasn’t. It nips right on the heels of the STW, Nosler, and RUM cartridges out of ordinary hunting rifle barrel lengths with waaaay less powder. Whatever about the curvy shoulder voodoo, I don’t know that there’s anything to that, but it hasn’t been crippled by an arbitrarily low SAAMI pressure and hooray for freebore. (Also the .270 weatherby comes to mind for the same virtues…). So what are your thoughts? It wouldn’t be hard to fire form brass, and we love tinkering with things enough that the weatherby case design and expensive factory ammo can’t possibly be all there is to why this round isn’t more popular…can it? If I ever get a 7mm of any kind this will probably be the one. [/QUOTE]
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